Police officers are authorized to suspend the driver's licence of anyone driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) over .08 or refusing a demand for a breath sample. The suspension will last 90 days effective 14 days after the mandatory 7 day suspension expires.

2. Who can be suspended?

3. How does the suspension work?

Anyone being charged with an offence for a BAC over .08 or refusing a breath test will also be served with the 90 day administrative suspension. The driver will be given a
7 day suspension, which will take effect immediately and the 90 day administrative suspension will come into effect 14 days later. The 14 days are given in order for the driver to make alternative transportation arrangements and receive further suspension information from Motor Registration Division.

5. Does this replace other suspensions such as the 7 day suspension?

6. Is the 90 day suspension constitutional?

Courts have ruled this suspension is constitutional and does not exceed provincial authority. Challenges to the administrative suspensions in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island have all been unsuccessful.

7. Isn't a person innocent until proven guilty?

The courts have recognized the suspension to be an administrative sanction. The suspension is intended to be a swift, certain means of taking
impaired drivers off the road. Whether the driver is guilty or innocent of the charges will be determined by the courts.